The main problem you're gonna have with this is explaining to them the difference between gender and sex, how gender is really just a social construct, that sort of thing. Get them on that first, then the suggetsions of some of the other commenters will probably go down a lot easier.

Really wish we didn't need to wait for politicians to die of old age before we could replace them...

Use the best tool for the job. I LOVE Linux, but as of right now it still has too many deal breakers to be my ONLY OS. I have to run it with Windows 11. That aside, my preferred distro is endeavourOS.

Main deal breakers right now include:

• Anti cheat support (this is getting better)
• Game compatibility (this is NEARLY solved but you still get the occasional game that crashes or doesn't wanna work well)
• Variable refresh rate support on multi monitors (yes wayland exists for this, but...)
• Wayland support isn't quite there. Implementations of it still have extra latency, using xwayland for games can have a performance hit, there's still bugs (looking at you SDDM), etc. Once KDE 6 and wine wayland come out I expect this to be solved
• Multi monitor scaling still sucks. KDE does it the best and I still run into problems with blurry applications on my mixed resolution setup

Fact of the matter is, Windows has none of these issues, and the problems windows does have for me (customization, spying, etc) are a lot less major and easier to deal with then the issues I have on Linux.

If by conservative you mean "you and your friends don't deserve human rights because I don't like you" then hopefully you're not welcome.

• The worlds are largely empty and boring to explore even compared to some much older open world titles
• movement/controls are clunky
• the combat system is incredibly simplistic especially compared to other games and makes combat largely uninteresting and unchallenging
• the weapon durability system is terrible and not only discourages exploration (to save your good weapons), but also prevents more complex combat mechanics from existing at all
• the plots really aren't good at all
• the shrines are repetitive
• the side quests have no good rewards and often aren't worth bothering with. This is due to any substansial rewards (health and stamina) being locked to shrines, main tools being given to you at the start, a lack of proper progression, and other tools like weapons being disposible.
• Because they give you all the tools at the start of the game, there's really no sense of progression making the game feel stale a lot more quickly then it otherwise should

TOTK doesn't really address any of these problems from BOTW. It does address things like enemy variety, and dungeons/bosses (barely), but both games share so many of the same issues I struggled to get through TOTK.

As someone who thinks BOTW and TOTK have a TON of glaring flaws that modern game journalism refuses to critique, this is disapointing to hear. I fear they're just gonna keep making BOTW clones with different powers and I'm never gonna get a traditional zelda game that isn't a remake again.